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NINE THEY WERE, UNDER THE THREE MOONS, 105
UNDER THE AUTUMN TWILIGHT:
AS THE WORLD DECLINED, THEY AROSE
INTO THE HEART OF THE STORY.
IV. Commentary
HOLY THE AIR
THAT CARRIED HIS WORDS OF ENDEARMENT, HIS FORGOTTEN SONGS.
- Armavir, "Song of Huma"
Line 1: FROM THE NORTH CAME DANGER, AS WE
KNEW IT WOULD. Well, SOME of us knew, but Armavir
is being very generous in using "we" in the first line of the
poem. It was he, of course, who first made the inspired
deduction that the draconians were indeed a horrid
perversion of magic, not a race that "just naturally grew" up
in the northern lands, as some of the other Companions
maintained at first (and Caramon Majere, not noted for his
insight, believed until the end of the war). They marked
down the poet's observation as "another Gnome prejudice,"
in the pettiness so widespread among all of their races, not
seeing that the prejudice was their own.
Line 4: ... FROM THE MOTHERING EARTH. Though
even the alert reader may take this to be a reference only to
Flint, the poet meant for the line to refer not only to Flint,
but to himself. This was one of his favorite phrases, as one
can tell by his repeating it intact in the final stanza
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